A small seaside community is for a 21 ft. great white shark swimming in the local lake. A fisherman netted the shark in Tuggerah Lake, which opens to the Pacific Ocean 60 miles north of Sydney, but when he realized the shark was bigger than his 18-foot boat he let it go.

Randy Thornton's swimming adventure earlier this month was skewed after one of his fellow swimmers, a humpback whale, flipped its tail. The 50-year-old diver had to be hospitalized for a broken femur at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center in Sandy. The incident happened on March 1 during an excursion trip in the Dominican Republic. Thornton and 17 other divers were on the last dive of the last day of their weeklong trip to the reefs called the Silver Banks, an area where divers are allowed to swim with humpback whales.

Despite a strong condemnation from some conservative Christians, the Oslo Natural History Museum has put on display several pieces of art that show homosexuality among animals. The exhibition entitled "Against Nature" is claimed to be the world's first on one of the most controversial subjects. "Homosexuality has been observed for more than 1,500 animal species, and is well documented for 500 of them," Geir Soeli, the project leader of the exhibition told Reuters in an interview.

A boatload of tourists on a whale watching trip were shocked to see hunters harpoon a whale right in front of them. The boat's skipper Geir Maan tells ABC, "We were on our way out to the whale watching area when we passed a whaling boat. "

Grey Whales are making a come back as birth rates rise after years of a depleting population. Scientist blame the warming arctic waters, which are forcing the whales' prey further away and therefore harder to find. However, the whales may be using the warming conditions to their advantage--using breaks in the ice to find better routes to their prey, the fatty amphipod.